An elderly Catholic priest was stabbed repeatedly in the chest by a burglar who wanted his BMW, a jury has heard.
Father Michael Ingwell, 71, suffered two collapsed lungs as he was stabbed 14 times at his home on Clarence Street, Halifax on 29 November 2004.

former England footballer sexually assaulted a female police officer as she tried to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly, a court has heard.
Gary Charles, 35, grabbed the woman after she pulled him out of a taxi in Nottingham, a jury at the city's crown court was told.

The former Derby, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and West Ham player denies sexual assault.

The officer told the court she felt "disgusted" by his behaviour.

Mr Charles, of Stretton, Derbyshire, was alleged to have become aggressive and swore at the police officer before assaulting her in August last year.

Two petrol bombs were thrown into a kebab shop in Bristol at the weekend. Officers were called to the Britannia Kebab Shop on Broad Street, Staple Hill on Saturday night, to reports of a gang of men smashing windows. One of two Turkish men working in the kebab shop at the time of the attack was struck during the incident, and treated in hospital. The masked offenders drove off in two vehicles, say police. The fire caused minor damage. Police believe the attack may be linked to a second incident, when they were called in the early hours of Sunday by a man reporting that his car was being followed. The occupants, including two Iraqis, had been involved in a dispute with a group of Turkish men in St Augustine's Parade, say police.

A burglar who repeatedly stabbed an elderly Catholic priest in his home has been jailed for 12 years.
Father Michael Ingwell, 71, suffered two collapsed lungs when he was stabbed 14 times at his home on Clarence Street, Halifax, in November 2004.

Asad Abbas, 20, of Harvest Court, Halifax, was convicted of attempted murder by a jury at Bradford Crown Court on Friday. He admitted burglary.

A convicted rapist who forced a terrified pensioner to hand over her life savings after climbing through her bedroom window was jailed for 11 years today.

Ian Smith woke Christine Cathrall from her sleep and dragged her around the flat, threatening her and demanding cash.

Afraid that Smith would hurt her Ms Cathrall, 74, who has since died, opened up a cupboard and handed over savings of £600.

But instead of fleeing, callous Smith, 46, made himself a cup of tea and smoked a cigarette before leaving the flat in Islington, north London, on May 17 last year.

The court heard that Smith – who has 40 previous convictions for dishonesty - was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1991 for raping three women during night-time burglaries in south east London.

Jailing the thug for 11 years, Judge Nicholas Medawar QC said: “These offences were committed within three months of leaving prison. You didn’t admit the offence and you have shown no remorse.

“You have an appalling record for domestic burglaries which have, in the past, been accompanied by rape.

“It was a 74-year-old lady whose flat you entered and she was greatly distressed. To enter the bedroom window of someone’s flat is an aggravating feature, when that person is in their 70s it is even more serious. As she put it she was mugged of her life savings.

Earlier in the trial a statement by Ms Cathrall was read to jurors. She told how she was sleeping in her ground floor flat where she lived alone when Smith crept in at 5.30am.

She said: "I was mugged in my own flat. I was in my bedroom in my night dress. I was in bed when a black man came in through my bedroom window. I had left it open to let air in.

“I remember going into the hallway with him pulling me by my head. I had about £600 in a cupboard which I gave to him and he was much calmer after that. I gave him the money because I was afraid that he might do something to me.

AN ILLEGAL immigrant who made a fortune from trafficking East European sex slaves was jailed for 11 years yesterday.
Vullnet Ismailaj, 27, an Albanian, smuggled scores of young Lithuanian women into Britain with the promise that they would earn good money.

Once they arrived, however, they were put straight to work, forced to surrender their passports and work up to 13 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week.

In an “organised and sophisticated” prostitution empire, which stretched from Birmingham to London and employed about ten girls at any one time, Ismailaj bought the young women, often selling them on for up to £4,000 each.

The new arrivals soon found that they had to repay thousands of pounds of “debt” by servicing dozens of men in one day.

Only when they had settled their debts would they be entitled to 25 per cent of their earnings — Ismailaj kept the rest. Brian O’Neill, for the prosecution, said: “It is clear from the way the women were treated by Ismailaj and the others that he, in particular, did not regard these women as anything other than chattels.